Earth drag



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Be it known that Emme A. TUCKER, e, citizen of the Unite States,residing at Bremefton, in. the county of Kitsap and State ofiieshington, have invented a eertein new and useful limpios/ement inEnth @regnet which the foilowing is e specification.

My invention relates to improvements in easth dings and the object of myinvention is to provide e deeg that is adapted for leveiiing andspreading earth over road beds when the same have heeome Worn and fui!o' mts.

Another object is to provide an earth drag thet embodies :iiexihieIneens joined in such e mennen that when drown over uneven groundseiriimeens ii/iii have a. tendency to spi-eed apart the ground endcausing the ineens to ride over the eised poitions of toe grounoithei'ehy eonveiging, spreading sind ieveiiing the seme,

A stiii further ohjeet is to pi'ovieie en irn proved deeg esiiexihie'eonstruetion that wiii oiiow toe movements o3? the actuatingtract-of or tee-.ni of horses and having ineens extending reeweediy ineietiieiy streight spaced felation no that short eosiie'is may he turnedwithout the exioie spending :ineens oveirunning eseii othe emi failingto reach portions of gnonnd to he covered.

it is Within the province of the diseisure to improve genei'niiy and toincrease the utiiitv of devices oi"- the type to which the presentinvention pertains.

With the shove vand other objects in View which Wiii appeal? .es thedescription proceeds. my invention resides in the combinetion` anderrang-ement of parts and' in the details of construction hereinafterdescribed und ciaimed it beine' understood that Within the scope of whatis eieimed changes in the precise embodiment oi" my invention shown runhe mede without departing fion the spirit thereof.

i accomplish these objects by devices i1- lustleed in the accompanyingdrawings, wherein- Figue l is pian View of en apparatus embodyingmyinvention; ami

`ig. 2 is :i View in side eievation of the same. v

Refering to the drawings, throiighout which iike reference numesaisindicate like paris, the numeral l designates e neem preferaby of wood,and of reetsnguier cross- 1922. Serial-no. wees?.

section, eye-bolts 2 sie positioned et spaced intervals aiong thefoifwoid fece of seid henna, the she-ni; of soiti eye-'heks being e5;-tended through the oeon and seemei at the rear thereof hy nuts CablesoiY other iexibe lines 5 attached to seid eyeboits 2 :mtime Ijethei'edtogether in e. ringti from which a hee 7 may-lead to the shaft gear of eteam of horses or to e. tracto?, not shown, whereby the de' ice isopez'utiveiy' actuated.

Eye-bolts i0 extending from the rear foce of the beam l oppositeiy tothe. eyefhoits 2 and secured in e eoiiesponding manner ere spaced uprift:it reietiveiy ciose regular intervois. One or more lengths oi loops ofchain il are festooue` between the entes-- most of said eye-hoits, :iti0. :it each enti of the "beam l. so that seid ioops will Ineke., whennxmngefi symmetsieaily. approximately e heieiieie. Siiniiei'iy,eddiiionni ioops of chain ore mi'enged in festoons i2 within the halfeiieie l'l end attached et their ends to inne? is eye-holte 1Gpositioneii syimnetrieeiiy on. opposite sicies o' the transverse exis o1seifi beam. Sei festooned loops of one disposeai and wrong-fed to dragthe ground end will en gege the eea-'th enemintez'eci in heaps or unevencondition and corwey7 iefei and smooth. the seine in en eiieient menne?.f

Chains l5 ere conneetefi et one end to the said eyehoits 10 and i0 andentend reorwerdiy oni the heem over the estooned loops il end 12. Thesopei'poseei Weight Aof the chains i5 on seid ioops renders the loopsmore eheient to the en'th enti spread the some. Said chains i5 ese connected together by links i6 et spaced. intervals oiong their iengthsreerwefiijf ot' seid outermost ioop il sind in s yangered z'eiotion sothat the Chains will foiiow :1 zig-zeg course and eneiose spaces ofeon'ventionai diamond shape which have the Capacity -to open and closewith ieihiiity and responsiveness to the vengumtion of the ground. Seidspaces wiil he expanded. ieteally in. going'V over hiiioieiis and thechains wiii oestreteheci iaterally to expose e. larger aree. and oi'er:more 'fesistenee to the emthA in the diyeotion in which. ti ey aretlfoviiing so that ther earth Wiii eeiried theiehy and he tiepositedor-spseeri along the lowes ieveis when the sheii cont-met the chains iiein norms-i It is also found thet thewdiessionei lines ifi on which themains l5 are connected serve o transmit the draft forces along 'thelengths of' the chains so that they will toluw rearwardly in relativelystraight lines even when the drag describes a devious courge or inturning a corner.

ft will he Seen that tlmx improved. drag when made in accordance withthe description harem SQL forth can he made of simple and easilyprocurable materials and may be readily and ecanomically colixtructed.lt is Yury errieni, in spreading; anil smoothing ground and sparticularl)7 adapted for im,

with tractors 0r to follan' gang-plmvs and 1h@ liln; a5 it requires thcminimum of atientinn and ir,- nntliahlr to he viaggi-il hy collectn@roots and other (hihi-h,l 'from which ordinarily harrows anil lrarg mu`thc mntinually freed.

What l claim is:

l. An earth drag, consisting of a trans- 1 masa@ `verse baarn, apluralit;A @f Chaim eonner rearwardly from ahi beams an@ a plurality olchains supcrposrrl upon said chain icaiouns and extending' rearwardlylfrn beam.

